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Universitv Daily Kansan, August 30, 1982
Opinion
Promoting opportunity
Four out of every 100 students in the University of Kansas graduate school are members of a minority. The school and the office of minority affairs think that percentage is too low, and have organized a recruiting program to bring more blacks, hispanics, Asians and native Americans here.
In the program, modeled after one at the University of Texas, faculty representatives from each department will be chosen to visit schools across the country. Their job would be to spread KU's name and get minority students interested in coming here.
The program's advantage would not be merely an increase of minority students at KU.
Students from other parts of the country and of the world bring with them ideas that might never be discussed or studied here if it were not for
them. Such exchange of ideas is vital to the academic health of the University.
Also, the program could give someone the incentive to pursue a higher degree where they had given up before. That student could go on to fill a skilled job, and become a plus to the economy.
Representatives next month will travel to Jackson State University and Rust College, both in Mississippi, and are considering making about 20 trips in all, including stops at Oklahoma, Georgia and New Mexico.
Gerry Williams, assistant director of the office of minority affairs, points out a potential problem when he says that some minority students see Kansas as part of the "boondocks."
but KU has a drawing card that should emphasize and perhaps erase that image from the mind of the students: opportunity.
A question of remembrance: the renaming of Flint Hall
A former student of Leon "Daddy" Flint's wrote after his death: "It was with deep regret that we who are former students as well as all other American journalists have lost a great teacher. He was deeply respected and his idea will continue to be driven and long after we are gone. It will be a long time before the name of Daddy Flint is forgotten."
Maybe not.
The faculty of the William Allen White School of Journalism has recommended that the name
TRACEE HAMILTON
of Flint Hall be changed to Stauffar Hall in honor of the late Oscar S. Stauer.
That recommendation is now before Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor for the Lawrence campus. From his office it goes to Chancellor Gene A. Budd and to the Board
The School of Journalism long benefited from Stauffer's generosity. His $1 million gift enhanced the renovation of Flint Hall. He established the Oscar S. Stauffer Distinguished Professorship, which John B. Bremner, professor of journalism, now holds. He educates sublariorships to the school; part of my education financed this year by one such sublariorship.
Oscar Stauffer was deeply involved in Kansas education. He sat on the Board of Regents for 24 years. He was a trustee of the University of Kansas and served as chair of the board he helped found the William Allen White Foundation.
He is perhaps best recognized as the former president and executive head of Stauffer Publications Inc., which has interests in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa, Arizona and Michigan.
Stauffer was also a former editor and publisher of the Topeka State Journal and the Topeka Daily Capital. In short, his name is closely associated with the country, in this state as well across the country.
a few students in the School of Journalism could tell you Leon N. Flint or what his contributions to the school were. But Daddy Flint, as he was called by his students and friends, was involved with the department, as it was then called. He bears remembering.
Daddy Flint, born in 1873 in Thayer, Kan. was graduated from the University in 1897 with a degree in philosophy. He returned from the University as an instructor in the English department. He became an associate
protessor in 1913 and in 1916 was named a professor and chairman of the then 5-year-old journalism department.
Flinte served as department head for 25 years, until 1941, when he stepped down to teach again.
In addition to his long service to journalism at KU, he wrote three books: "Newspaper Writing in High Schools," "The Editorial!" and "The Conscience of the Paper." He organized the first conference for editors of high school newspapers. He organized the Kansas Council of Teachers of Journalism. He founded the Kansas Editors' Hall of Fame. He was the first general secretary of the University of Kansas Alumni Association.
Daddy Flint died in 1955 at the age of 79. Earlier that year, the journalism building had been named for him. The Rev. Dale Turner eulogized Flint: "The most obvious monument to Professor Flint's life, of course, is the building which bears his name. But his greatest monument is the men and women across the world whose lives he has stimulated to more effective work. Leon Flint was a giver rather than a receiver."
So, it is argued, was Oscar Stauffer. I agree. The faculty of the school maintain that the name change was not proposed in deference to Stauffer's financial generosity. I believe that.
But Stauffer's name will continue, through his children in the newspaper business, through his chain of newspapers and radio and television stations, through his scholarships and professions.
Flint's books are probably outdated and stuff now. He was rather conservative; he once said that the main change in the journalism industry over the years had come with the influx of women.
"It used to be a man's department," he said. A 1945 issue of the Kansan reported that Flint thought that, in the hands of the girls, the paper had lost much of its pugnaciousness and aggressiveness. "I like the Kansan conservative," Flint said, although he added that he thought the ideal staff was one composed of both sexes.
It was once calculated that Daddy Flint had overseen more than 1,000 students during his tenure in the department. His students went on to bigger and better things. He also founded the newspaper publishers, Roy A. Roberts, former editor of the Kansas City Star, was a former student.
Daddy Flint could be forgiven. He chose to make his fame not in the professional world, but at the University. He touched people by his presence. But at the university, he has a precious gift he had—a life of service.
I think that former student who so eloquently expressed his grief at Flint's death would agree that the building should remain a lasting monument to Daddy Flint.
That student was Oscar S. Stauffer.
The University of Kansas has been hit by yet another trend – budget cutting. And although Chancellor Gene A. Budig has told us otherwise, the cuts probably will make getting a good education at KU more difficult, and maybe a little more expensive.
Good education costs more and more
Gov. John Carlin asked the Kansas Board of Regents to reduce spending 4 percent this July. The Regents complied, and administrators cut $3.17 million from the budget.
Hundreds of students will not be able to take required courses in western civilization and business.
Many last-minute writers of term papers will find that the books they need are locked behind
CATHERINE BEHAN
Swell. I just paid $3 dollars for the books for the class, and now they want more from me. I paid my tuition. So, on principal, I decided not to loot the buoyy thing. After all, he told the class that we did not have to buy a syllabus and I should just use what the assignments would be each day.
library doors because the libraries have been forced to close earlier to save money.
Good, maybe that would keep people coming to class if only to get the assignments. But on Friday, it wasn't even worth it.
There also will be fewer librarians, because some have gotten fed up with the problems the cuts have caused and have decided to quit. The University has put a freeze on hiring, so that any workers who quit will not be replaced for a while.
And that means that any policeman who quit will not be replaced, making the campus a little less safe. Some professors undoubtedly will quit because of the national economy, which has made it harder to live on a professor's salary.
New, granted, that is not a lot of money, and,
as my instructor explained, the syllabus comes with a
lot of extras such as additional vocabulary lists, songs, sample quizzes and cultural briefs that make the syllabus worth
the 75 cents.
But I thought the French department went a little too far when they asked beginning French classes to pay for their syllabuses. When my French 110 instructor walked into class, he apologetically explained that the French department had had to make cuts on its supplies budget and so was asking students to nav 75 cents for a syllabus.
All this is to be expected with budget cuts, and the administration has done a pretty good job keeping the University as good as can be under the conditions.
Most of the cuts have come out of supplies and potential new employees' salaries, however. This seems logical. Why shouldn't they? You know what happens when they can and save on photocopying?
syllabus for the next day - things to study for a quiz he would give us Wednesday. The syllabus, I suppose, is unofficially mandatory.
Norris Lacy, head of the French department,
said the department had had three choices —
not giving the material it thought the students
needed, letting the bookstore sell the syllabus
at a profit or charging students for the copying
costs. It chose the third.
"I would prefer that all the departments were adequately budgeted so that we could provide the material for free," Lacy said.
Lacy also said the syllabus was not required – that students who chose not to buy it could get assignments and material from classmates, teachers or other instructors. The material from which the student would benefit.
Will all departments now start charging for syllabuses in order to offset copying costs? Why not just tell us the assignments and save us some money in the process? Why not photocopy the assignments and skip all cultural and give us the extra vocabulary in class?
At least we would not suffer from a lack of information.
Unfortunately, the alternatives are not so simple in other departments.
Pianos in Murphy Hall will go untutured for the year, making it a little harder for piano and
voice students to hear what they are supposed to sound like.
chemistry students will have less first-hand experience experimenting with chemicals, because more students will be working on the same experiment at the same time, because there will be fewer chemicals to work with. Students will have to double-up, even triple or quadruple-up, and will have less time to actually do the lab work.
Meanwhile, Facilities Operations crews will keep the lawns and sidewalks watered—even when it rains. And we all will be chilled to the temperature of our air conditioning is set perpetually on maximum.
Although many faculty and staff members will be working harder to provide the high standard of education for which we came to KU, many students who once paid their way through college now have time staying in school, because departments will be hire fewer student assistants.
This hiring freeze will hit teachers' performance, as well. As John Tollefson, dean of the School of Business, was quoted in the Kansan, "If we can't hire student assistants and buy the supplies we need, we're not going to be doing a good job."
What this all means is that students will have to work harder to get that good education Budig promises -- and may have to buy syllabuses.
Letters to the Editor
Parent's Day open-seating plan bad idea
To the Editor:
Although generally agreeing with the Aug. 25 editorial, "Cheers for Jim Lessig," I disagree of Lessig's open seating scheme for the 1974 game. My disapproval stems from two sources.
First, the $25 each student pays for his football ticket is at least partly spent because he knows he is getting a reserved seat in the student section. Yet on Oct. 2, none of the seats in the student section will be reserved. Not only will each student not be guaranteed his reserved seat, but if enough parents and non-n students show up, some students will not be able to sit anywhere in their classroom. Where are they sitting in the student season ticket-holders to sit – in the rather poor seats of the North Bow? Not very good service for Lesig's 'backbone of (the) athletic program.'
Second, Lesig points out that "student support is infectious." This is quite true. No other college athletic fans are as enthusiastic as students. Even at KkU games, where students are
as fickle as fans can be, there still is no doubt which section of the stadium leads the cheers, Rock Chalk chants, and wheat-waving - the students'. This enthusiasm and support is transmitted during games to the players, establishing within them that physical and psychological peak only home crowd support can create. Yet on Oct. 2, this great support for the team will be dispersed throughout the stadium, losing much of its strength in the process.
Though it may be too late to stop open seating this year, I hope my and other students' disapproval of this plan will prevent it from becoming a tradition at KU.
Michael Riggs Lawrence law student
Yells mar 'Rock Chalk'
To the Editor
no currently enrolled KU student has ever heard it in all its beauty and charm, all the way through, without interruption. They probably never will.
Why? The indiscriminate, ill-timed yelling in the mid of it, while the cheerleaders are valiantly trying to lead it, completely destroys the cadence and its impressiveness. When properly given, without interruption, it can bring a tingle to the spine of all loyal Jayhawks, and a chill to the opposition. Recent student bodies seem determined that it must do neither
It might be expected that fans from opponent schools would try to drown out and destroy the effectiveness of our great yell, but it is sad and disturbing to hear our own students do it.
Our "Rock Chalk" is recognized as the most college vellum in America. Unfortunately,
At the next football game, and all future games, let's all follow the cadence of our cheerleaders and heart-beating beauty. At its end the enthusiastic yelling will be very much in order.
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